Live Auction 2686South Asian Modern + Contemporary Art
VIVAN SUNDARAM (B. 1943)
Lot 92

VIVAN SUNDARAM (B. 1943)

Re-take of Amrita

Closed20 March 2013

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USD 12,500

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VIVAN SUNDARAM (B. 1943)
Re-take of Amrita
signed and dated 'Vivan 2001' (lower right); signed, inscribed, titled and dated 'Vivan Sundaram Retake of Amrita 2001 Vivan Sundaram' (on the reverse)
digital photomontage
22 x 10 in. (55.9 x 25.4 cm.)
Executed in 2001

Acquired directly from the artist

Specialist note

"In 1936 in Shimla, Indira was the privileged model for her father Umrao Singh and her sister Amrita. The montage accentuates Indira's elongated body in the sofa by her mannered pose in the photograph."
(Artist statement, re-take of Amrita, New Delhi, 2001, p. 54)